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Trojans major threat in 2005
« on: Jan 26th, 2006, 4:59pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Threat Trends 2004-2005
According to Panda Software, viruses are going out of style. By strict definitions, less than 1% of new threats in 2005 were viruses, but Trojan horses, generally distributed for malicious profits, are rapidly gaining.  
 
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1914837,00.asp
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Re: Trojans major threat in 2005
« Reply #1 on: Jan 26th, 2006, 8:20pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Especially considering that much spyware has similar infection vectors and behavior to trojans, that doesn't surprise me.  I first noticed this by looking at Sophos updates page: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ -- as, more and more of the entries are "bots" and "Troj" entries; fewer are worm and virus entries.  Wink
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I guess this reflects the trend for "commercial trojans" i.e. adware also discussed recently here -
 
http://forum.misec.net/board/Announcements/1137672917
 
However the Panda software threat listing shown in the pcmag article claims that the "adware/spyware" category has declined from 3% to 2% from 2004 to 2005 - that seems somewhat unlikely to me.  Maybe their definition of adware strictly excludes anything with trojan-like behaviour? - however that definition does not seem to accord with the generally accepted definition as I understand it - i.e. that a trojan developed for pushing ads would generally considered to be adware.
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